[RESOLVED] PHP Contact Form sending Blank Emails

[ronyarefin]

I am a newbie PHP programmer (Learning stage) and trying to add a simple PHP contact us form to my site

It is processing the form but sending me a email with no information on it, somehow it is failing to collect data from the textboxes. Please see codes below:

HTML CODE

<h2>Contact Us</h2>

<br>

<Center>
<p>
<B>Thanks for spending time on our site your comments/suggestions will help us improve!
<br>
Please fill in all the details
</B>
</p>

<form method=post action=email_form.php>
<Table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 class=small_txt>

<TR><TD width=150><font class=small_txt><B>Your Name: </B></font></TD>
<TD><input type=text class=small_txt name=user_name size=50></TD></TR>

<TR><TD width=150><font class=small_txt><B>Your Email address: </B></font></TD>
<TD><input type=text class=small_txt name=email_address size=50></TD></TR>


<TR><TD width=150><font class=small_txt><B>Comments Suggestions: </B></font></TD>
<TD><TEXTAREA rows=5 cols=49 name=email_message class=small_txt></TEXTAREA></TD></TR>
</Table>
<P></P>
<input type=submit value="Submit Info" class=small_txt>
</form>

</center>

PHP CODE

<?php

$email_msg_to = "[e-mail]";
//change to a proper email address where the message should go to

/*
All these other feilds values $user_name, $email_message, $email_address are retrived from email_form.htm that we have created earlier!
*/

$message = "Comments/Suggestions \n\nName: ". $user_name ."\nEmail: ". $email_address ."\n\nMessage: ". $email_message;

mail($email_msg_to, "Msg From: " . $user_name ." Comments/Suggestions", $message, "From: ". $email_msg_to);

echo "Thanks for your comments/suggestions <B>". $user_name . "</B> we have recieved your message and will contact you soon.";
?>

Here's the link: http://fashion-basement.com/email_showform.php

Please help!!!!

Thank you

[ ModEdit - bpat1434 ] Please use the HTML and PHP tags on this forum.

[bpat1434]

You need to reference those items passed to you via a posted form through the $POST super-global array. Those things passed to you via the URL (like mypage.php?var=val&item=value) you use $GET.

So to get the email address, mail message, and user name, you'd use:

$user_name = $_POST['user_name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email_address'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

Your current code requires register_globals to be enabled on the server. With the move of hosts from php4 to php5, that setting should be harder and harder to find enabled by default. It's a security concern.

[furnissg]

Are you retrieving the vars from the post somewhere?

if not try adding this to the top of your php

$user_name = $_POST['user_name'];

$email_address= $_POST['email_address'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

hope that helps

[ronyarefin]

furnissg wrote:

Are you retrieving the vars from the post somewhere?

if not try adding this to the top of your php

$user_name = $_POST['user_name'];

$email_address= $_POST['email_address'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

hope that helps

Thank you , now i am getting the username & email but the message box is showing blank no matter what i type on it

Thanks for your help guys

[furnissg]

ah sorry you have your text area named email_message so the var should be

$message = $_POST['email_message'];

that should work

[ronyarefin]

furnissg wrote:

ah sorry you have your text area named email_message so the var should be

$message = $_POST['email_message'];

that should work

For some strange reason that doesn't work, i am tad confused!!

[furnissg]

try do some debugging to see what is being passed in the post then double check that your variables are being set to the right name.

if(isset($_POST){

   echo '<pre>';

   print_r($_POST);

   echo '</pre>';


}

[ronyarefin]

furnissg wrote:

try do some debugging to see what is being passed in the post then double check that your variables are being set to the right name.

if(isset($_POST){

   echo '<pre>';

   print_r($_POST);

   echo '</pre>';


}

Where do i insert this debugging code? what result am i looking for?

Thanks

[bpat1434]

You can put that above the line you have $user_name = $_POST['user_name'];

You're looking for an output of an array. That's it.

Take the output of that array, and post it here for us.

[ronyarefin]

bpat1434 wrote:

You can put that above the line you have $user_name = $_POST['user_name'];

You're looking for an output of an array. That's it.

Take the output of that array, and post it here for us.

It is showing the below message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /misc/30/116/302/493/1/user/web/fashion-basement.com/email_form.php on line 3

[bpat1434]

And what is the current content of email_form.php?

[ronyarefin]

ronyarefin wrote:

It is showing the below message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /misc/30/116/302/493/1/user/web/fashion-basement.com/email_form.php on line 3

<?php

if(isset($_POST){

   echo '<pre>';

   print_r($_POST);

   echo '</pre>';


} 

$user_name = $_POST['user_name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email_address'];
$message = $_POST['email_message']; 

$email_msg_to = "[e-mail]";
//change to a proper email address where the message should go to

/*
All these other feilds values $user_name, $email_message, $email_address are retrived from email_form.htm that we have created earlier!
*/

$message = "Comments/Suggestions \n\nName: ". $user_name ."\nEmail: ". $email_address ."\n\nMessage: ". $email_message;

mail($email_msg_to, "Msg From: " . $user_name ." Comments/Suggestions", $message, "From: ". $email_msg_to);

echo "Thanks for your comments/suggestions <B>". $user_name . "</B> we have recieved your message and will contact you soon.";
?>

[ronyarefin]

Please can someone help me with this? i am still having the same problem!!

Thank you

[bpat1434]

You're missing a closing ")" on your if() statement on line 3

[ronyarefin]

bpat1434 wrote:

You're missing a closing ")" on your if() statement on line 3

Sorry i dont understand so what qould be the correct coding?

thanks

[ronyarefin]

I have done this now, it is showing me the below message on the screen:

Array
(
)

Thanks for your comments/suggestions we have recieved your message and will contact you soon.

[bpat1434]

I'm not really sure. I don't know if this would make a difference; however, try encapsulating your name, value, type, and class items in quotes. So you form would look something like:

<form action="email_form.php" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="user_name" size="30" class="small_txt" />
  <textarea name="email_message" rows="5" cols="49" class="small_txt"></textarea>
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Not sure if that's what's causing an issue or not.

Then in your "email_form.php" replace the top if() statement with this:

if(isset($_POST))
    var_dump($_POST);

So it should look like:

<?php

if(isset($_POST))
    var_dump($_POST);

$email_msg_to = '[e-mail]';  

// continue with your code...